Music

Splice got itself in some trouble a couple weeks ago when it issued a YouTube copyright strike against Krystle Delgado, a music attorney who showed one of the company’s sample licenses on screen. Splice wised up and retracted the strike last week, CEO Kakul Srivastava tell me. “We fundamentally support the rights of creators to express themselves – even if we disagree,” she wrote in an email to Delgado.

The star takes the electric SUV through a cinematic montage of situations to the sounds of Training Season — while explaining how she’d direct a Porsche commercial in ways that “Porsche guys” wouldn’t.

Apple Music Classical now has a Top 100 chart. A collection of keyboard concertos composed by Johann Sebastian Bach is at number one, followed by recordings of Johannes Brahms-composed symphonies.

The streaming music service has launched a new Parental Guide detailing its tools for managing your kids’ listening habits as well as its efforts to keep the platform safe.

House music and technology are my two favorite things, and finally, I’ve found a way to write about them both.

Kendrick Lamar’s brutal and relentless takedown of fellow rapper Drake has inspired a wealth of content creators. We’ve had gifs, animated shorts, and now a whole-ass video game. Game designer Richie Branson has made a game where you must “wop wop wop wop wop” on owls as fast as possible to rack up points.

A core trope of Verge coverage over the years is that copyright law is the only functional regulation on the US internet, because it allows various actors to demand content takedowns without worrying about that pesky First Amendment.

According to Not a Tesla App, the 2024.26 update in testing has features like parental controls that limit speed and acceleration or notify about late-night drives, an AQI symbol for poor local air quality, and scheduled charging.

Last week, Paramount Global abruptly pulled the MTV News archive that remained available following its shutdown last year. Now Variety reports that the Internet Archive has amassed more than 460,000 snapshots of the site, which you can browse through using the Wayback Machine.

Some of the biggest players in the music industry are suing generative AI music startups Suno and Udio for copyright infringement. In the lawsuits, plaintiffs include examples of AI songs that sound a lot like human artists — and some are pretty blatant.

You can catch the tremendous concert film Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus live during its online premiere June 30 at 8:00 PM ET on the Criterion Channel. And don’t worry if you miss the stream — you’ll be able to watch it on any time starting July 1.

A report from 404 Media highlights a new type of bot that gets around Ticketmaster’s queuing system by opening dozens of different browsing sessions on one computer, giving them multiple chances to snag tickets from fans. The mix of bots — and fans — likely contributed to Ticketmaster’s latest crash.

The iconic desktop media player has enjoyed several revivals, but none as technically impressive as Rodrigo Méndez’s Linamp.

Late hyperpop legend Sophie, who tragically slipped and fell at the age of 34 from a balcony window in Greece in 2021 trying to look at the moon, has been memorialized on the 9th track “So I” of Brat, Charli XCX’s new album.

Right up there with Umbrella, baby.

Google introduced AI extensions last year, letting the bot formerly-known-as Bard connect with other Google apps and services. It’s continued expanding the feature, most recently adding a connection between Gemini and YouTube Music, but now Android Authority has found code in the app indicating Gemini could connect to Spotify, too, eventually.

As Drake attempts to flip taunts by Kendrick Lamar, Rick Ross, and Metro Boomin on Sexyy Red’s “U My Everything,” the beat transitions into a sample of the AI-generated song “BBL Drizzy.”

Did you know the release timeline for 1989 (Taylor’s Version) was sneakily announced using nail varnish and latte art? Or that the rerelease of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) was teased via colorful elevator buttons in her Bejeweled music video?

“It is time to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster,” said US Attorney General Merrick Garland, in a statement announcing the DOJ antitrust lawsuit.

Apple Music’s team of experts crowned Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill as the number one album, followed by Michael Jackson’s Thriller in second and The Beatles’ Abbey Road in third. You can check out the full list of top 100 albums from Apple’s website.

The company announced that it’s “opening up its source code” and invites developers to contribute to the Windows version of its music player. It’s also releasing a mobile app in July. As ZDNet points out, the company will still own and decide what goes into the official version.